Update on 6th pay commission

The Department of Expenditure , under the Ministry of Finance, had recently put out a memorandum earlier in the month of August, regarding the revised rates of the Dearness Allowance DA to employees of the central government and central autonomous bodies.

This memorandum and the changes within were set to apply to the above employees of the above-mentioned employment, who are still drawing their salary in the pre-revised grade pay as per the 5th pay commission and the 6th pay commission. The revised DA rates will be applicable for the central government employees and central autonomous bodies employees from July 1, Basically, what the office memorandum was emphasising was that there would be no DA arrears that will be paid to these employees for the period between January 1, , to June 30 The office memo also stated that the DA for the period of January 1, , to June 30, , for both the 5th pay commission and 6th pay commission would remain unchanged.

For the periods mentioned, employees would continue to receive per cent under for the 5th pay commission and for the 6th pay commission. The increase subsumes the additional instalments arising on The rate of Dearness Allowance for the period from The increase subsumes to the additional instalments arising on The rate of Dearness Allowance for the period of It should be noted that the Centre had increased the DA as well as the Dearness Relief DR for all the central government employees recently, following 7th pay commission.

The DA was previously sitting at 17 per cent, but with the hike of 11 per cent, the total DA stands at 28 per cent now. This was set to take effect from July. At the same time, contract employees will now be regularized in 2 years in three years. Notification has been issued in this regard. With this decision, the salary of the employees will increase from 4 to 30 thousand.

Employees will get 28 percent Dearness Allowance in the new pay commission. The order of DA has been issued separately. With the new pay commission, the grade pay system and the Assured Career Progression Scheme of will be abolished, but step up facility will be available. The same arrears will be available when the government decides, although other allowances including HRA-TA will continue to be available according to the previous pay commission. Notification has also been issued to give 28 percent dearness allowance to the employees.

According to media reports, under the new pay commission, there are two options one is 2. For this, the employees have to fill the form and give it to the head office. If any clarification is required, it should be obtained from the Finance Department.

In the new pay commission also, the increment will remain only three percent. The State Government will have the right to make any changes in these rules. After the implementation of the Sixth Pay Commission, it will increase to 50 percent.